Mount of Olives

High confidence~2 km
Modern identification
Mount of Olives ridge · Jerusalem
Coordinates
31.7780, 35.2440

The ridge is securely identified, but individual discourse and route positions are usually not exact.

What happened at Mount of Olives

  1. His triumphal entry into Jerusalem as the Messiah

    Mark 11:1-11; Matthew 21:1-11, 14-17; Luke 19:29-44; John 12:12-19

    The entry is a route event from Bethany through Bethphage and the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem. The ridge is securely identified, but individual discourse and route positions are usually not exact.

  2. Sitting on the mount of olives, Jesus speaks to his disciples about the destruction of Jerusalem, and his own second coming, in apocalyptic language. The great eschatological discourse

    Mark 13:1-37; Matthew 24 and 25; Luke 21:5-36

    The ridge is securely identified, but individual discourse and route positions are usually not exact.

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